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Re: display: table - should we use it?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 23, 2014 5:51AM

Hi

A quick test of the table example using Jaws 14 and NVDA 2014.1 with
IE11 and Firefox 27 display expected behavior. Even with the most
liberal table detection settings, only one table (the actual table) is
detected on the demo page.
If some assistive technology/browser combiantion interpret the page
otherwise, we need to make sure to file bugs against the technology
vendor or community and, if required, the browser.
CSS should not be treated as content and CSS display properties (other
than display: none / visibility: hidden and visually hiding
textoff-screen) should not affect the DOM tree.

Cheers
-Birkir


On 5/23/14, Justin Perry < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the list.
>
> I've a particular component on which I'd like to utilise display: table and
> display: table-cell to produce variable width columns with flexible heights
> and full vertical alignment control. The layout doesn't represent tabular
> data. The display: table property would be used to help style it in a
> certain way.
>
> A colleague of mine pointed me towards Roger Johansson's article where
> Roger highlights some screen readers (NVDA and ORCA) announcing these CSS
> tables as a real tables:
> www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201110/using_displaytable_has_semantic_effects_in_some_screen_readers/
>
> In my own testing on Roger's examples, using NVDA 2014.2 and JAWS 15 with
> Firefox 29, (http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/display-table) it only
> announces the real table and treats the CSS tables as regular content.
>
> So I'm wondering, is there any reason why we shouldn't be using
> display:table?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Justin
> > > >


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